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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
9
Papers filed today in a divorce suit in the Superior court by Charles W. Allen against Meta G. Allen both of this city. The ground is habitual intemperance. The couple married July 29 1903. Mrs Davis was Meta Davis before marriage.
Bridgeport theatergoers recall Miss Margaret Lawrence, a 1910 favorite, set to wed Orson D. Munn of New York, son of Charles A. Munn of Scientific American. The couple planned a Rahway New Jersey wedding after her rising stage success in Over Night.
J P Morgan Jr arriving aboard the Oceanic in New York on December 14 forecast a future where giant liners might no longer use New York harbor. He said war department limits on 1000 foot piers could push construction to New London Connecticut as a western terminus for transatlantic ships.
Charles H. D. Knowles seeks his missing wife Mary D. Winner in Trenton after a secret marriage announced days earlier. He alleges Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, a Yale professor's wife and sister of the bride, learned of the wedding on February 16, 1910, and that Albert Nelson later claimed control of the Pennington farm where Knowles worked.
New Haven December 14 Mrs Henry Wade Rogers wife of Yale Law School Dean and sister of the missing woman known as Mrs Knowles says the family knows where she is today She declines to discuss reports that the Knowles family opposes the manager formerly on her farm and was the missing woman sought by Trenton police
Fort Riley reports indicate new arrests in a dynamiting conspiracy after Private Michael Quirk’s confession to authorities. Warrants were issued for Mrs. Anna Jordan and Rev. Thomas M. Brewer, with Brewer en route from Oklahoma. Quirk alleges dynamite use on the Kaw River bridge and other targets, totaling about $500,000 in damage. Jordan and Brewer deny the accusations.
Senator Works of Iowa urged extending veterans benefits to Confederate veterans to heal sectional rifts and soothe postwar tensions. He spoke during a Senate debate on a resolution to probe charges of oppression at the National Soldiers Home in Los Angeles County.
A United Press dispatch from Berlin reports ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid critically ill with little hope, moved from Salonica to Constantinople as his condition worsens. The notice warns of kidney and bladder ailments and promotes Foley Kidney Pills.
From Elkhart Indiana came the message that led to the arrest of Earl Siegerfoos an employee of the Locomobile Co by Detective Edward Cronan. Siegerfoos is wanted for disobeying an Indiana court order granting his wife a divorce and alimony. Sheriff Frank Leader of Goshen County Indiana heads to Bridgeport to extradite him.
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